Re: Sugar Desktop

[David Farning <dfarning@sugarlabs.org>]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 13:13 +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 00:04, David Farning wrote:
> > I am wondering if there is interest in creating OE packages for the
> > Sugar desktop [1].
> 
> There is interest. I got a XO laptop from the OLPC Germany at the linuxtag. The
> two goals are XO machine support in OE and packages for all kind of sugar
> applications. So far I worked on machine support in my small spare time. Machine
> is added, kernel compiles and boots fine, something is still worng when booting
> the rootfs. Once this is fixed I'll send the patches for review.

As of last week,  OLPC has started working directly with Fedora to make
a native Fedora desktop run on the XO.  I hope this leads to more
upstream interest porting more platforms to the XO.  Currently, OLPC is
working pretty hard to get 8.2 released.  Please remind me in a couple
of weeks (in case I forget) to set up some hardware contacts for you.

> > Please let me know if anyone is interested in this type of project.  If
> > so, I will try to get something started.
> 
> Getting help on the sugar front wuld be great. So I you have someone who would
> like to help out here let us know.
> 

We are working with Jason Kridner from TI about doing a port to the
beagleboard using the OE toolkit.  We are setting up a colobration
infrastructure at http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardSugar .  From an upstream
perspective, is this list and the OE wiki the best places to have
OE/Sugar discussions.

thanks
dfarning